Try setting these in the dialstring:<div><a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables#Caller_ID_Related">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables#Caller_ID_Related</a></div><div><br></div><div>For example:</div>

<div>session = freeswitch.Session(&quot;{caller_id_name=Steve,caller_id_number=12345}user/&quot;..dest);</div><div><br></div><div>If caller_id_* doesn&#39;t work try the effective_caller_id_* variable.</div><div><br></div>

<div>-Steve</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2013 03:54, Vincent Xia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gmangudai@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmangudai@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div>hi all,</div><div>while initiating a call from lua with </div><div>session = freeswitch.Session(&quot;user/&quot;..dest);</div><div><br></div><div>the calling number shown by the called party is &quot;000000000&quot;</div>


<div>is it possible to set the calling number to the actual number?</div></div>
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